Individual Details
Joseph John Herrmann
(June 1, 1912 - September 11, 2002)
Graduated Saint Leo Preparatory School in 1930
Mayor of San Antonio, Florida 1957-62
Co-founder of San Antonio Citizens Federal Credit Union, December 1955
SAN ANTONIO HONORS JOE HERRMANN
St. Petersburg Times; St. Petersburg, Fla.; Aug 27, 2001; CHASE SQUIRES;
Joe Herrmann - entrepreneur, banker, developer, and sometimes newspaper carrier - took an hour Sunday to recall a lifetime by the shores of Lake Jovita.
At 89, Herrmann said he somehow never got around to making a financial fortune, but he made up for it with a lifetime of friends and family in a town that he watched grow from clay roads to a bustling small town.
"We may have missed the millions of dollars, but we sure had fun with what part of the millions we had," he said.
More than 60 friends and family members spent part of Sunday afternoon with Herrmann at the Saint Anthony of Padua Parish Center as he took a seat on a wooden chair on stage, leafed trough old maps and a book of notes, and told his life story.
At times, Herrmann was interrupted by applause and laughter. And at times he paused to reflect on the loss of his wife, Rose, who died in May after working alongside her husband while they raised nine children, struggled through hard times and finally enjoyed retirement as celebrated members of their small town.
"We've been after Dad for some time now to tell his story," son Eddie Herrmann said. "Every time we hear some of these stories, we always learn something new."
Herrmann's father, a German baker named Lucius, came to Florida in 1914 on advice from a doctor who said the warm climate would help his rheumatism. The family moved about central and eastern Florida until settling in the new town of San Antonio.
In 1925, Herrmann's father bought 25 acres on the south side of town and mapped a plan for the land. Although his father never created the subdivision he designed, Herrmann discovered the map in 1958 and helped develop the property, making him one of the town's earliest developers.
As a boy, Herrmann helped his father run a bakery, delivering bread for 5 cents a loaf. He used his bicycle to deliver newspapers, and worked as a caddy at the old golf course, located where Lake Jovita Golf and Country Club is now.
Herrmann regaled his audience with tales of moonshiners in Wesley Chapel, roads that were barely passable and the troubles with getting around on an old Model T Ford.
He dabbled in radio sales, back when the newfangled machines were called superhetrerodynes, as well as sales of the earliest electric household appliance.
Eventually he found himself in the bottled gas business - even calling on his wife to help deliver the gas when World War II called his regular workers off to fight - and he used his negotiating skills to talk the wartime rationing board out of tires when townspeople needed them.
He did a stint as a Pasco County commissioner, and another as San Antonio's mayor.
Herrmann's achievements are still visible around town.
He helped found the Traveler's Rest mobile home community north of San Antonio - which boasts more than 1,200 residents - and built the Jovita Building by hand with his sister and father along Curely Street.
The building still stands today.
Remembering how his father lost everything when a Dade City bank collapsed in the 1920s, Herrmann tried to launch his own bank for San Antonio residents. When he lost thousands trying the first time, Herrmann said he was undaunted and tried again.
He became one of the founders of the San Antonio Citizens Federal Credit Union, an institution that still serves area residents.
"I contend that's one of the nicest things I could've done for the community," he said.
As he told his stories, friends and family would prompt him to tell favorite anecdotes.
"You can see that at one time or another I've told a few of these tales," he said.
Looking back on more than 70 years in a small town, Herrmann said he is pleased with how his community has evolved.
"I think it pretty much turned out the way the originators wanted it to," he said.
"It's a nice, small community. I don't think it's supposed to be more. It's a good place to live."
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Copyright Times Publishing Co. Sep 12, 2002
In the 1950s, Joe Herrmann, an incumbent Pasco County commissioner thanks to a gubernatorial appointment, lost his electoral bid to retain the seat. It may be the only time he wasn't the most popular guy in town.
He'd been a San Antonio City Council member and mayor, but politics wasn't his game. Public service wasn't for recognition, ego- building, income potential, or furthering some other agenda. It was for helping people and bolstering San Antonio and the surrounding communities in eastern Pasco County.
We can all take a lesson from Herrmann. He was one of the founding fathers of the San Antonio Credit Union, the Pioneer Florida Museum and Village and the Pasco County Fair Board. He championed the Dade City Chamber of Commerce and the San Antonio Rattlesnake Festival among other causes. He delivered communion to the infirmed and led rosary prayers as one of the pillars at Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church.
Civic duty? He was always the first to vote in Precinct 10 at San Antonio City Hall where his daughter, Barbara Sessa, is city clerk. A few years ago, Jim Grimes beat him to the polls, but refused to cast his ballot until Herrmann arrived and voted ahead of him.
Leading a good life was good in return. Herrmann didn't have a family doctor. He didn't need one, except for the time he injured a kidney during a mishap while filming son Eddie in the Soap Box Derby. When Herrmann first became ill five years ago, a physician asked for his medical records. There weren't any. He'd never been sick.
Herrmann succumbed Wednesday afternoon at his home in San Antonio, on a street that bears his name. The signs on Joe Herrmann Drive just went up Sept. 1, three months after his 90th birthday.
He and his late wife, Rose, raised nine children and weren't shy about helping others. But Rose's death last year after 65 years of marriage sapped much of Joe's strength.
In retirement, they frequently traveled the country in an Airstream trailer. Joe, a one-fingered typist, hauled along a manual typewriter and wrote a daily letter home to children, grandchildren and friends. At the end of the vacation, he published the daily dispatches in a booklet. Each was signed the same: "God loves ya and so do we."
There are plenty of reminders of the love Rose and Joe shared. The neighborhood Herrmann built circa 1960 on the south side of State Road 52 is christened Rosewood after his wife and the pine trees planted there.
That endeavor made him one of the area's first developers. He also developed the Traveler's Rest Mobile Home Park. Herrmann knew growth could bring benefits, namely an expanded tax base. He didn't share the NIMBY (not in my back yard) arguments that surfaced in 1998 when the Lake Jovita Golf and Country Club came to town.
Developer was just one title. The resume also included banker, business owner and salesman. He pushed war bonds in the 1940s and won a Ford in 1950 for his ability to sell General Electric freezers. In later years, he hawked T-shirts at the Rattlesnake Festival.
I met Joe Herrmann in 1987. He was one of the co-chairmen of Pasco County's centennial celebration that year. At the conclusion of an interview, he gave me a wooden nickel. Nothing particularly special. He gave them to everybody. He was a lifetime member of the Dedicated Wooden Money Collectors.
Herrmann ordered and dispersed the wooden nickels for civic groups, fundraising events and his own enjoyment. He kept a supply in one pocket, handing them out like business cards. But just to men. He kept Smarties candy on hand, too. Those went to the ladies. He'll be buried Saturday with pockets filled with both.
The family will keep the Paul Harris Medal for civic duty from the Dade City Rotary - given to Herrmann the day after Rose died - and another memento from the Florida Pioneer Museum bestowed less than two weeks ago at its annual festival on Labor Day weekend.
Community sentiment toward Herrmann is best summed up by Realtor Lewis Abraham, who presented his longtime friend a framed certificate three years ago. It read:
"God blessed East Pasco when he let Joe Herrmann move here.
Copyright Times Publishing Co. Sep 12, 2002
Joe Herrmann last year told a group of friends that somehow he never got around to making a financial fortune, but he made up for it with a lifetime of friends and family.
At 2:25 p.m. Wednesday (Sept. 11, 2002), the local entrepreneur, banker, developer and politician died at his home, along a street named for him. He was 90.
Mr. Herrmann became a small-town legend as he built businesses, served in city and county governments and countless civic groups, and helped create the San Antonio Credit Union, the county fair board and Pioneer Florida Museum and Village.
"We may have missed the millions of dollars, but we sure had fun with what part of the millions we had," he said as he told his life story to a group of friends last year.
His son, Eddie, said Tuesday that Mr. Herrmann had been in failing health and pined for his wife of 65 years, Rose, who died last year.
"Daddy has been wanting to go to heaven," Eddie Herrmann said. "We're going to miss him. He was a great influence on so many lives all across Pasco County."
San Antonio Mayor Roy Pierce said Mr. Herrmann's death left a hole in the community.
"He dedicated most of his life to serving civic organizations and the city," Pierce said. "He is an example of what somebody can do with their life."
Pierce said in addition to the good deeds Mr. Herrmann did publicly, he did others behind the scenes.
He said Mr. Herrmann was known to quietly help students pay for college. He donated to city causes. And a few years ago, when the city had no money to replace hard metal chairs for city commissioners, Mr. Herrmann anonymously donated six padded, leather seats.
In April, the city honored Mr. Herrmann by changing the name of Park Street to Joe Herrmann Drive. The street runs in front of his home.
When he learned of the honor, Mr. Herrmann said, "I pretty well love this town."
Mr. Herrmann's family moved to Florida in 1914 and settled in San Antonio in 1925.
He got his start in the working world at age 5, delivering bread for his parents' bakery. He later delivered newspapers and then was a caddy at the old golf course. When the Lake Jovita Golf and Country Club opened on the land that once held the old course, Mr. Herrmann was there to cut the ribbon.
Mr. Herrmann dabbled in radio sales back when they were dubbed superheterodynes, and he brought some of the earliest electric household appliances to San Antonio buyers. He later got into the bottled gas business and was active on the home front during World War II. He was a top war bond salesman, and he specialized in helping residents get by when materials were strictly rationed.
He was among the town's first property developers and helped found the Traveler's Rest mobile home community north of San Antonio, which today has more than 1,200 residents. He also helped his father build the Jovita Building, which still stands along Curley Street.
In the 1950s, Mr. Herrmann was appointed by the governor to serve on the Pasco County Commission upon the death of Commissioner Arthur Schrader.
Schrader's grandson, County Commissioner Ted Schrader, remembered Mr. Herrmann fondly Wednesday.
"He was a visionary," Schrader said. "He was genuinely concerned about the direction of city government and this county."
Mr. Herrmann also served as mayor of San Antonio from 1957 to 1962.
Looking back last year on nearly eight decades in San Antonio, Mr. Herrmann said he was pleased with how the community evolved.
"I think it pretty much turned out the way the originators wanted it to," he said. "It's a nice, small community. I don't think it's supposed to be more. It's a good place to live."
Funeral arrangements had not been announced Wednesday.
Copyright Times Publishing Co. Sep 13, 2002
HERRMANN, Joe, 90, of San Antonio, Florida, died Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at home. Widely known and respected as an entrepreneur and visionary, he began his earning years as a teenager. Most notable ofhis personal successes was his Saf-T-Gas business. His community involvements were many and he has long been known as "Mr. San Antonio." He was a founder of several organizations including The Lake Jovita Fire Club (forerunner of San Antonio's volunteer fire department), The San Antonio Citizens Federal Credit Union, the Pasco County Fair Association and the Pioneer Florida Museum Association. He was also very proud of the part he played in the founding of Traveler's Rest. In the 1960's he was appointed to the Pasco County Commission where he served out the unexpired term of A.H. Schrader, Sr. He long served as aCouncilman and as Mayor of the City of San Antonio.
He was preceded in death by Rose, his wife of 66 years. He is survived by children, Eddie Herrmann and wife Patsy of Dade City, Fla., Margaret Beaumont (widow of Dave) of San Antonio, Fla., Paul Herrmann and wife Wanda of San Antonio, Fla., Rosemary Herrmann of San Antonio, Fla., Joseph Herrmann and wife Ceil of Plant City, Fla., Barbara Sessa and husband Sam of San Antonio, Fla., Johnny Herrmann of San Antonio, Fla., Mary Sue Keenan of Wellington, Fla., and Gregory Lucius Herrmann and wife Danielle of Decatur, Ga.; one brother, Leo Herrmann of Ruston, La.; two sisters, Mary Dagobert and Agnes Durden both of Jacksonville, Fla.; 30 grandchildren and 28 great- grandchildren. He was predeceased by his brothers, Lucius, Edward and Stephen;and a sister, Margaret Kirch. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Saturday, September 14, at Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Saint Anthony Cemetery. Visitation will be held at the church on Friday from 5-8 p.m. with Wake Service and Rosary to began at 7 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to The Pioneer Florida Museum Association or to Saint Anthony School.
Published in the TBO.com on 9/13/2002.
HERRMANN FUNDERAL SERVICES SCHEDULED:[STATE Edition]
St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Sep 13, 2002. pg. 4
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Copyright Times Publishing Co. Sep 13, 2002
Funeral services for San Antonio businessman and philanthropist Joe Herrmann are scheduled for Saturday morning at the city's Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church.
Herrmann lived in San Antonio for more than 70 years, running the Saf-T-Gas business, working in real estate and helping build such community institutions as the San Antonio Credit Union, the Pasco County Fair Association, the Pioneer Florida Museum and Village, and the Traveler's Rest community.
He also was a Pasco County commissioner and mayor of San Antonio.
He died at home Wednesday afternoon. He was 90.
Visitation is scheduled for tonight from 5 to 8 p.m., with wake and rosary service at 7 p.m.
A Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at Saint Anthony's, with burial to follow at Saint Anthony Cemetery. Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Pioneer Florida Museum and Village or to Saint Anthony School.
Herrmann's wife, Rose, died last year. He is survived by sons Eddie, of Dade City; Paul and Johnny, of San Antonio; Joseph, of Plant City; and Gregory Lucius, of Decatur, Ga.
Also, daughters Margaret Beaumont, Rosemary Herrmann and Barbara Sessa, all of San Antonio; and Mary Sue Keenan, of Wellington.
He is also survived by one brother, Leo, of Ruston, La.; two sisters, Mary Dagobert and Agnes Durden, both of Jacksonville; 30 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.
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St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Jun 9, 2000. pg. 1
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Mayor of San Antonio, Florida 1957-62
Co-founder of San Antonio Citizens Federal Credit Union, December 1955
SAN ANTONIO HONORS JOE HERRMANN
St. Petersburg Times; St. Petersburg, Fla.; Aug 27, 2001; CHASE SQUIRES;
Joe Herrmann - entrepreneur, banker, developer, and sometimes newspaper carrier - took an hour Sunday to recall a lifetime by the shores of Lake Jovita.
At 89, Herrmann said he somehow never got around to making a financial fortune, but he made up for it with a lifetime of friends and family in a town that he watched grow from clay roads to a bustling small town.
"We may have missed the millions of dollars, but we sure had fun with what part of the millions we had," he said.
More than 60 friends and family members spent part of Sunday afternoon with Herrmann at the Saint Anthony of Padua Parish Center as he took a seat on a wooden chair on stage, leafed trough old maps and a book of notes, and told his life story.
At times, Herrmann was interrupted by applause and laughter. And at times he paused to reflect on the loss of his wife, Rose, who died in May after working alongside her husband while they raised nine children, struggled through hard times and finally enjoyed retirement as celebrated members of their small town.
"We've been after Dad for some time now to tell his story," son Eddie Herrmann said. "Every time we hear some of these stories, we always learn something new."
Herrmann's father, a German baker named Lucius, came to Florida in 1914 on advice from a doctor who said the warm climate would help his rheumatism. The family moved about central and eastern Florida until settling in the new town of San Antonio.
In 1925, Herrmann's father bought 25 acres on the south side of town and mapped a plan for the land. Although his father never created the subdivision he designed, Herrmann discovered the map in 1958 and helped develop the property, making him one of the town's earliest developers.
As a boy, Herrmann helped his father run a bakery, delivering bread for 5 cents a loaf. He used his bicycle to deliver newspapers, and worked as a caddy at the old golf course, located where Lake Jovita Golf and Country Club is now.
Herrmann regaled his audience with tales of moonshiners in Wesley Chapel, roads that were barely passable and the troubles with getting around on an old Model T Ford.
He dabbled in radio sales, back when the newfangled machines were called superhetrerodynes, as well as sales of the earliest electric household appliance.
Eventually he found himself in the bottled gas business - even calling on his wife to help deliver the gas when World War II called his regular workers off to fight - and he used his negotiating skills to talk the wartime rationing board out of tires when townspeople needed them.
He did a stint as a Pasco County commissioner, and another as San Antonio's mayor.
Herrmann's achievements are still visible around town.
He helped found the Traveler's Rest mobile home community north of San Antonio - which boasts more than 1,200 residents - and built the Jovita Building by hand with his sister and father along Curely Street.
The building still stands today.
Remembering how his father lost everything when a Dade City bank collapsed in the 1920s, Herrmann tried to launch his own bank for San Antonio residents. When he lost thousands trying the first time, Herrmann said he was undaunted and tried again.
He became one of the founders of the San Antonio Citizens Federal Credit Union, an institution that still serves area residents.
"I contend that's one of the nicest things I could've done for the community," he said.
As he told his stories, friends and family would prompt him to tell favorite anecdotes.
"You can see that at one time or another I've told a few of these tales," he said.
Looking back on more than 70 years in a small town, Herrmann said he is pleased with how his community has evolved.
"I think it pretty much turned out the way the originators wanted it to," he said.
"It's a nice, small community. I don't think it's supposed to be more. It's a good place to live."
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Copyright Times Publishing Co. Sep 12, 2002
In the 1950s, Joe Herrmann, an incumbent Pasco County commissioner thanks to a gubernatorial appointment, lost his electoral bid to retain the seat. It may be the only time he wasn't the most popular guy in town.
He'd been a San Antonio City Council member and mayor, but politics wasn't his game. Public service wasn't for recognition, ego- building, income potential, or furthering some other agenda. It was for helping people and bolstering San Antonio and the surrounding communities in eastern Pasco County.
We can all take a lesson from Herrmann. He was one of the founding fathers of the San Antonio Credit Union, the Pioneer Florida Museum and Village and the Pasco County Fair Board. He championed the Dade City Chamber of Commerce and the San Antonio Rattlesnake Festival among other causes. He delivered communion to the infirmed and led rosary prayers as one of the pillars at Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church.
Civic duty? He was always the first to vote in Precinct 10 at San Antonio City Hall where his daughter, Barbara Sessa, is city clerk. A few years ago, Jim Grimes beat him to the polls, but refused to cast his ballot until Herrmann arrived and voted ahead of him.
Leading a good life was good in return. Herrmann didn't have a family doctor. He didn't need one, except for the time he injured a kidney during a mishap while filming son Eddie in the Soap Box Derby. When Herrmann first became ill five years ago, a physician asked for his medical records. There weren't any. He'd never been sick.
Herrmann succumbed Wednesday afternoon at his home in San Antonio, on a street that bears his name. The signs on Joe Herrmann Drive just went up Sept. 1, three months after his 90th birthday.
He and his late wife, Rose, raised nine children and weren't shy about helping others. But Rose's death last year after 65 years of marriage sapped much of Joe's strength.
In retirement, they frequently traveled the country in an Airstream trailer. Joe, a one-fingered typist, hauled along a manual typewriter and wrote a daily letter home to children, grandchildren and friends. At the end of the vacation, he published the daily dispatches in a booklet. Each was signed the same: "God loves ya and so do we."
There are plenty of reminders of the love Rose and Joe shared. The neighborhood Herrmann built circa 1960 on the south side of State Road 52 is christened Rosewood after his wife and the pine trees planted there.
That endeavor made him one of the area's first developers. He also developed the Traveler's Rest Mobile Home Park. Herrmann knew growth could bring benefits, namely an expanded tax base. He didn't share the NIMBY (not in my back yard) arguments that surfaced in 1998 when the Lake Jovita Golf and Country Club came to town.
Developer was just one title. The resume also included banker, business owner and salesman. He pushed war bonds in the 1940s and won a Ford in 1950 for his ability to sell General Electric freezers. In later years, he hawked T-shirts at the Rattlesnake Festival.
I met Joe Herrmann in 1987. He was one of the co-chairmen of Pasco County's centennial celebration that year. At the conclusion of an interview, he gave me a wooden nickel. Nothing particularly special. He gave them to everybody. He was a lifetime member of the Dedicated Wooden Money Collectors.
Herrmann ordered and dispersed the wooden nickels for civic groups, fundraising events and his own enjoyment. He kept a supply in one pocket, handing them out like business cards. But just to men. He kept Smarties candy on hand, too. Those went to the ladies. He'll be buried Saturday with pockets filled with both.
The family will keep the Paul Harris Medal for civic duty from the Dade City Rotary - given to Herrmann the day after Rose died - and another memento from the Florida Pioneer Museum bestowed less than two weeks ago at its annual festival on Labor Day weekend.
Community sentiment toward Herrmann is best summed up by Realtor Lewis Abraham, who presented his longtime friend a framed certificate three years ago. It read:
"God blessed East Pasco when he let Joe Herrmann move here.
Copyright Times Publishing Co. Sep 12, 2002
Joe Herrmann last year told a group of friends that somehow he never got around to making a financial fortune, but he made up for it with a lifetime of friends and family.
At 2:25 p.m. Wednesday (Sept. 11, 2002), the local entrepreneur, banker, developer and politician died at his home, along a street named for him. He was 90.
Mr. Herrmann became a small-town legend as he built businesses, served in city and county governments and countless civic groups, and helped create the San Antonio Credit Union, the county fair board and Pioneer Florida Museum and Village.
"We may have missed the millions of dollars, but we sure had fun with what part of the millions we had," he said as he told his life story to a group of friends last year.
His son, Eddie, said Tuesday that Mr. Herrmann had been in failing health and pined for his wife of 65 years, Rose, who died last year.
"Daddy has been wanting to go to heaven," Eddie Herrmann said. "We're going to miss him. He was a great influence on so many lives all across Pasco County."
San Antonio Mayor Roy Pierce said Mr. Herrmann's death left a hole in the community.
"He dedicated most of his life to serving civic organizations and the city," Pierce said. "He is an example of what somebody can do with their life."
Pierce said in addition to the good deeds Mr. Herrmann did publicly, he did others behind the scenes.
He said Mr. Herrmann was known to quietly help students pay for college. He donated to city causes. And a few years ago, when the city had no money to replace hard metal chairs for city commissioners, Mr. Herrmann anonymously donated six padded, leather seats.
In April, the city honored Mr. Herrmann by changing the name of Park Street to Joe Herrmann Drive. The street runs in front of his home.
When he learned of the honor, Mr. Herrmann said, "I pretty well love this town."
Mr. Herrmann's family moved to Florida in 1914 and settled in San Antonio in 1925.
He got his start in the working world at age 5, delivering bread for his parents' bakery. He later delivered newspapers and then was a caddy at the old golf course. When the Lake Jovita Golf and Country Club opened on the land that once held the old course, Mr. Herrmann was there to cut the ribbon.
Mr. Herrmann dabbled in radio sales back when they were dubbed superheterodynes, and he brought some of the earliest electric household appliances to San Antonio buyers. He later got into the bottled gas business and was active on the home front during World War II. He was a top war bond salesman, and he specialized in helping residents get by when materials were strictly rationed.
He was among the town's first property developers and helped found the Traveler's Rest mobile home community north of San Antonio, which today has more than 1,200 residents. He also helped his father build the Jovita Building, which still stands along Curley Street.
In the 1950s, Mr. Herrmann was appointed by the governor to serve on the Pasco County Commission upon the death of Commissioner Arthur Schrader.
Schrader's grandson, County Commissioner Ted Schrader, remembered Mr. Herrmann fondly Wednesday.
"He was a visionary," Schrader said. "He was genuinely concerned about the direction of city government and this county."
Mr. Herrmann also served as mayor of San Antonio from 1957 to 1962.
Looking back last year on nearly eight decades in San Antonio, Mr. Herrmann said he was pleased with how the community evolved.
"I think it pretty much turned out the way the originators wanted it to," he said. "It's a nice, small community. I don't think it's supposed to be more. It's a good place to live."
Funeral arrangements had not been announced Wednesday.
Copyright Times Publishing Co. Sep 13, 2002
HERRMANN, Joe, 90, of San Antonio, Florida, died Wednesday, September 11, 2002, at home. Widely known and respected as an entrepreneur and visionary, he began his earning years as a teenager. Most notable ofhis personal successes was his Saf-T-Gas business. His community involvements were many and he has long been known as "Mr. San Antonio." He was a founder of several organizations including The Lake Jovita Fire Club (forerunner of San Antonio's volunteer fire department), The San Antonio Citizens Federal Credit Union, the Pasco County Fair Association and the Pioneer Florida Museum Association. He was also very proud of the part he played in the founding of Traveler's Rest. In the 1960's he was appointed to the Pasco County Commission where he served out the unexpired term of A.H. Schrader, Sr. He long served as aCouncilman and as Mayor of the City of San Antonio.
He was preceded in death by Rose, his wife of 66 years. He is survived by children, Eddie Herrmann and wife Patsy of Dade City, Fla., Margaret Beaumont (widow of Dave) of San Antonio, Fla., Paul Herrmann and wife Wanda of San Antonio, Fla., Rosemary Herrmann of San Antonio, Fla., Joseph Herrmann and wife Ceil of Plant City, Fla., Barbara Sessa and husband Sam of San Antonio, Fla., Johnny Herrmann of San Antonio, Fla., Mary Sue Keenan of Wellington, Fla., and Gregory Lucius Herrmann and wife Danielle of Decatur, Ga.; one brother, Leo Herrmann of Ruston, La.; two sisters, Mary Dagobert and Agnes Durden both of Jacksonville, Fla.; 30 grandchildren and 28 great- grandchildren. He was predeceased by his brothers, Lucius, Edward and Stephen;and a sister, Margaret Kirch. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Saturday, September 14, at Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Saint Anthony Cemetery. Visitation will be held at the church on Friday from 5-8 p.m. with Wake Service and Rosary to began at 7 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in his memory to The Pioneer Florida Museum Association or to Saint Anthony School.
Published in the TBO.com on 9/13/2002.
HERRMANN FUNDERAL SERVICES SCHEDULED:[STATE Edition]
St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Sep 13, 2002. pg. 4
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Copyright Times Publishing Co. Sep 13, 2002
Funeral services for San Antonio businessman and philanthropist Joe Herrmann are scheduled for Saturday morning at the city's Saint Anthony of Padua Catholic Church.
Herrmann lived in San Antonio for more than 70 years, running the Saf-T-Gas business, working in real estate and helping build such community institutions as the San Antonio Credit Union, the Pasco County Fair Association, the Pioneer Florida Museum and Village, and the Traveler's Rest community.
He also was a Pasco County commissioner and mayor of San Antonio.
He died at home Wednesday afternoon. He was 90.
Visitation is scheduled for tonight from 5 to 8 p.m., with wake and rosary service at 7 p.m.
A Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at Saint Anthony's, with burial to follow at Saint Anthony Cemetery. Donations in lieu of flowers may be made to the Pioneer Florida Museum and Village or to Saint Anthony School.
Herrmann's wife, Rose, died last year. He is survived by sons Eddie, of Dade City; Paul and Johnny, of San Antonio; Joseph, of Plant City; and Gregory Lucius, of Decatur, Ga.
Also, daughters Margaret Beaumont, Rosemary Herrmann and Barbara Sessa, all of San Antonio; and Mary Sue Keenan, of Wellington.
He is also survived by one brother, Leo, of Ruston, La.; two sisters, Mary Dagobert and Agnes Durden, both of Jacksonville; 30 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren.
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St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Jun 9, 2000. pg. 1
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Events
| Birth | June 1, 1912 | Columbus, Franklin Co., OH | |||
| Marriage | August 6, 1935 | San Antonio, FL - Rose Amelia Ullrich | |||
| Death | September 11, 2002 | San Antonio, Pasco Co., FL |
Families
| Spouse | Rose Amelia Ullrich (1917 - 2001) |
| Child | Edward Herrmann |
| Child | Margaret A. Herrmann |
| Child | Paul Herrmann |
| Child | Barbara Herrmann |
| Child | Joseph William Herrmann |
| Child | Rosemary Herrmann |
| Child | John Herrmann |
| Child | Mary Sue Herrmann |
| Child | Gregory Lucius Herrmann |
| Father | Lucius Joseph Herrmann (1880 - 1965) |
| Mother | Helen Veronica McSweeney (1883 - 1965) |
| Sibling | Margaret Mary Herrmann (1913 - 1994) |
| Sibling | Mary Herrmann |
| Sibling | Stephen Charles Herrmann (1918 - 2001) |
| Sibling | Lucius Francis Herrmann (1920 - 1944) |
| Sibling | Edward James Herrmann (1921 - 1991) |
| Sibling | Agnes Herrmann |
| Sibling | Leo Herrmann |